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Good morning everybody. Happy fancy Friday, and happy Women's Month. People. Women have a monk, which is pretty cool. I actually was looking at some pictures of these suffragettes, you know, marching in like nineteen fifteen for the right to vote, and they were pretty cool. They had signs. They were carrying signs like give me liberty or give me death. They were like they were like right there with the Constitution and everything else, and they

were fighters. And I can't believe women didn't have the right to vote until nineteen twenty one or twenty. But if you look at these suffragette marches, they're like in New York City, take a look at the crowds like drew. They drew like massive crowds at the Suffragette marches. If you look at the like the streets of New York. They did it also I think overseas

as well, but the streets of New York and other places. It was a pretty it was a pretty big It was a pretty big movement there and in the crowd was like women, men, you know, you name it. And so anyway, Happy Women's Month to all of you ladies and gentlemen.

Good morning. And I think the suffragetes were cool, especially when they were like they were invoking revolutionary terms, you know, so it was like that was beautiful and at that point, how are you going to argue with give me liberty or give me death when somebody's saying that to you, Right, They finally sucked it up and did it. Ladies and gentlemen. Pastor Pat Rankin have Bible will travel. Hey, you know what, it's interesting. By the way, Hi, my friend, how you doing good?

You know what's crazy. I was having a conversation with somebody not too long ago, and they were talking about how the Bible isn't like the Bible beginning with this with Eve, you know, being the one that did the poison apple, and that Eve had to come from man's room and she was wandering. She was blathering on about about how women really aren't really treated well on the Bible, and that they're considered for the Bible to be the bad people

whatever. I'm like, well, maybe that's not true. I mean, in fact, in a New Testament, the women represent some of the strongest, bravest characters. Like let's put it this way. When Jesus rose and they noticed the rock from the tomb moved from the tomb, it was the disciples that all ran away. The males and the women were the ones who gravitated towards the place, right, So I don't know. Yeah, yeah, absolutely, you're one hundred percent correct. And they play a huge role,

not only in the Bible but obviously everywhere in society. So yeah, I've heard people use that analogy before, but that's it couldn't be for from the truth. So I guess you can. Human beings can spin anything, and you know that that's what the devil does. He you know, he's he started back in the garden. He's going to do it all the way to the end of time is try to spend the truth on people. Yeah, that that is true. I just I just look at it as it's

the Bible is filled with really amazingly strong women. I mean that not the not the least of which is Mary for crying out loud. I mean, you know, it's like wow, I mean, yeah, he gave me, man, God has only begotten Sun for cry out loud. I mean, it's that's right. He had he had to choose a woman that was full of faith and believed in his plan, and uh, that's why he

picked her. She was she she she checked all those boxes. Actually that that that's that's why it still astounds me that as much as a great Christian nations as we are and and we're founded upon as uh, that it took that long for women to get to the vote. I was told that for a while there there was a time when, because of the status of the families and the way families were, that women really didn't necessarily want the right to vote for a period of time. I don't get on me about this,

ladies. I'm just saying that there was a time there when there was a societal norms and family norms, like during the eighteen hundreds of that kind of thing, where there were delineated roles, and sometimes that women didn't really care to be the voters. In the fact, I don't know, I don't know any of them. But yeah, yeah, so you know something, Yeah, God has a great plan for not just but man, women

and children, but everybody who calls on the name of God. And that's and again, Jamie, like you said before, some of the greatest people depicted in the Bible or women and the messages here that those who put their trust in Jesus, uh will reign supreme in the end. So and and what a greater time in the month of March where we actually got let's see, what is it, five weeks uh leading up to resurrection Sunday. Yeah.

Yeah, I mean even if you look at the wedding of Cana and they ran out of wine and they were like, yeah, do we ask you just about this? We just they went right to marry Mary's wanted, took care of business there with the wine right well, talking to Jesus about it, yeah, absolutely, yeah, So yeah, I'm not sure about what you were talking about there before, but obviously, you know, praise God for great you know, praise God that we got a lot of pro

life bombs out there. And uh and and I'm thinking about my my own mother and my wife, just great women and women of faith, and behind every great guy, there's a there's a great woman. That's for sure. Well, that is for sure. Hey, buddy, I was thinking about you yesterday when and I don't want to I don't want to drag you too much into politics. I know that's not you don't fear that or anything.

But but this was really a great moment in this Committee hearing, and Matt Gates was grilling the Defense Secretary over his just failure to notify anybody that he would be away, his transference of power to the his deputy, who at the time was actually on a on a beach in uh In, Costa Rica or wherever it was. And so, uh, Matt Gates also decided to bring this up to Austin, saying, Hey, you know, it's interesting you come to us like for forgiveness and grace. You're always always asking people

to give you a break over this whole thing. And when it came time to releasing firing all these soldiers because they didn't take the vaccine, because you had a separate mandate that had to be corrected, you didn't give them a whole lot of grace. And check this out. Check out what Matt Gates wound up reading in the hearing. You're not going to be discharged, right, No, that's right. Okay, You're not going to be suspended, you're not going to be demoted, and you're not going to have your pay

cut. None of those things are going to happen to you. Right, that's right. Okay, So you come here seeking some grace and some forgiveness. And I want you to know that one of the service members who you've axed mandated out of the military, sent me the parable of the unforgiving debtor, and it's in the Book of Matthew Versus twenty one to thirty five. The man fell down before his king and begged him, please be patient with me, and I will pay all the debt. Then his master, filled

with pity for him, released him and forgave him of his debt. But when the man left the king, he went to a fellow servant who owed him a few thousand dollars. He grabbed him by the throat and demanded payment. His fellow servant sat down and begged him for a little more time. Be patient with me and I will pay it, he pleaded. But his creditor would not wait. He had the man arrested and put in prison until the debt could be paid in full. When some of the other servants saw

this, they were very upset. They went to the king and told him everything that had happened. And the king called the man who had been forgiven and said, you evil servant, I forgave you that tremendous debt because you pleaded with me. Shouldn't you have mercy on your fellow servant, just as I had mercy on you. Then the angry king sent the man to prison to be tortured until he had paid his entire debt. Mister secretary, you come to us seeking forgiveness, but you offer none, and it seems as

though the pattern is repeated. You make a mistake, like on the vax mandate and here regarding your notification, then you get busted. President Biden had to sign something into law reversing your vax mandate. You got busted here not because you came forward, but because we learned of this through other means. And then after you get busted making a mistake, you know you want you want that benefit, but you don't want to extend it to others. This

isn't swift or clear. You're not meeting your own standards that you set for yourself. Yeah, I mean so my feeling is, and I thought about you about this, because my feeling is any time that God's word or and the Gospel of Matthew or any other gospel for that matter, weeds its way into the political arena, and especially since it is a is a fantastic parable

and a beautiful one and a hugely important one. I think that's a victory, man, that's a victory over this kind of continued war with with devil as far as I'm concerned. Wow, that's Jamie. That is powerful, man. I am just blown away. And I can feel the spirit of God moving on that there, because that's what that's what this whole month is about. Is is the power of forgiveness, you know, and if we don't forgive others, you know, God can't forgive us. Our hearts have

got to be changed. And understand that God will forgive you if you repent and ask for forgiveness. And this mercy that God has shown us, you know, mercy is not getting something we actually deserve, you know. And if you talk about what we really deserve as hell, fire and damnation, but we don't get it because of the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and what he did at the Cross of Calvary. So wow, that is powerful

man. I really appreciate you sharing that with everybody, and I applaud Matt Gates for bringing that up that It's just fabulous and you can see God moving. I believe there's anointing on the month of March with all these wonderful serverses these churches are going to be having and bringing people back to Christ. Is uh, what a what a better time? And Jamie, you've just done a masterful job at uh leading people to the cross. And I thank you

and your audience. What a what a what a great God we serve a powerful, wonderful forgiving God. Well, oh thank you for that. And it is it's very basic. You can't take you can't take God's mercy and not give it. You can't take God's love and not give it. And I think it's weird because it's almost like liberty. It's a hard thing to do for people. But it's designed to be hard. It's designed to be

challenging. And it being hard is no excuse, you know, so right and and it is hard and and God never asked you to do it on your own end. As a matter of fact, we can in the flesh. That's why we need Jesus in our life and the spirit of God to move so we can do that not under own might, but under the power of God. Yeah, no doubt about it. So how's everything going with Bible study? And I mean I gotta tell you, I laugh because I

really like your I like your videos on Facebook. Man. I like it when you come on and do whatever it is you want to do and or you have discussions with people. I just I just it's it's you guys do a really good job with that. I love that. Yeah. Wait, Bible study, Yeah, there's a lot going on. As a matter of

fact, we just had another one that just got launched last night. It was a man up Bible study out at our Moscow campus and one of my buddies, Greg Berg, put it on last night and we had twenty guys out there. It's just all about guys taking their rightful place and in their starting in their families and their local churches, and then in their communities and the state in our country. And we'll get back to the country that we handed away to the devil and get it back and don't let the devil take

any more ground, and get back to the Kingdom of God. Right on. I want to come out to one of those. I gotta. I gotta keep in touch with you and make sure we have happened how and the services are all good. Everything's going well at the campuses, and yeah, everythanks popping. It's uh, you know, hey, it's the greatest time of the year, you know, talking about the resurrection of Christ. You know, that's why he came. He came to die and conquer the grave

and death right on. Yeah. Well, Pastor pet Rank and the official chapman of the All in the Morning show. It's always great. I always look forward to this this time of the week. And love you much man, say hi to everybody, and I'll see you soon. Okay, Jamie, God bless you and God bless your audience. Have a great day in the Lord. Love you, brother, friend, Love you to That is a pastor Pat Rank, and have Bible will travel. Check it out on

the web HBWT dot org. It's common Sense Radio. Good morning, common Sense Radio. Here almend in the morning, Jamie Ollman here proves to be with you one O four nine and the Patriot and well, you know, I genuinely don't like watching people suffer. I don't enjoy watching people in misery. I don't enjoy it when people's best laid plans blow up in their face. But I kind of do when it's the left, the Democratic Party in the media, and I think the last time it was this fun watching freakouts.

Was when Trump beat Hillary Clinton and everybody was crying, And I feel really bad to a certain degree because I enjoyed the video of these women crying

so much that I I felt really actually kind of guilty about it. But if you go back and if you every want to just kind of have a feel good moment where you just need to you know every things are going right and things are going well, just google the video and watch the women cry at Hillary Clinton's empty victory party place where everybody was gathering to have their victory party, and then she lost and there are people crying. And I generally,

again I'm a lover, not a fighter. I don't like watching people cry, but sometimes I actually really do and that's really a great moment, you know. Between that and like watching some Islamic terrorists get whacked by a drone, those are fun videos. I like those. Again, I don't like watching people die, but sometimes I do, And so I know that it sounds bad, but I don't, but sometimes it's those are feel good, cathartic type of moments. And so watching so many people on the left

and the Democrat Party of the media freak out over. The gradual dismantling of the cases against Donald Trump really is a joy to behold because because it changes their behavior, they become people who otherwise you never imagine them to be. It's kind of like, you know, when you're watching Disney movies and and like the evil people suddenly start to get their plans screwed up, and they just get more and more crazy. It's a kin to kind of pull on

the gun when you're cornered. And so Woopy Goldberg generally is not really a I mean, she's kind of crazy sometimes, but she's not as crazy as some of the other people in the view she sometimes has a more, if

you will allow me to say it, more balanced view of things. Sometimes, but even the people who seemingly are balanced will get thrown off and their synapses will explode, and their entire core of any kind of decency absolutely drops right out of their rear ends, and they will even get to the point where they say things that two weeks ago they decried as an evil. So a couple of weeks ago, Whoopie Goldberg was talking about how president just gonna

arrest everybody you're gonna elect to go and arrest gay people. That's what she said on her show. I don't have the sound bite, but that's even better. Yeah, you don't yay. Once he gets elected, going arrest gays and blacks and put them in prison, and I'm like, oh okay. So two weeks later, when the going gets tough and they realize that this case in Georgia is absolutely going to blow up, this case is over.

There's no First of all, when Fani is disqualified. That means when the das disqualified, no one else in their office can take the case. Their office has been completely neutralized. So somebody else might have to pick up the case or do whatever, but no one in their office can do it. So it will require some other office to take it up, and that'll take forever. This case is done, and by then Trouble be president and

it'll be one big fat middle finger to everybody else. And then the case in New York, even though Jack Smith wants to try this in July, never gonna happen. It'll never make it that far, and there won't be anything adjudicated until the election, and then once the election happens, it won't be happening at all. So that case is blowing up because the Supreme Court decided to take up the immunity situation and so, uh, it's going to

be taking a while. So this is starting to freak everybody out in Hollywood. They're all tweeting, you know, in the middle of the night, even though they're millionaires, or tweeting in the middle of the night about jailing

Justice Thomas. That's that's it. Always. It's funny when the left goes crazy, they start to talk about jailing people, which is interesting, and that's why it's crazy that Whoopy Goldberg, two weeks after telling everybody Trump was going to jail gay people, is now advocating for the jailing of Republicans, which is, you know, really crazy, but that's what she's doing.

She's advocating for the jailing republuments until the end of April. Now I'm just you know, just let's look at a scenario where the Supreme Court says, yes, he has that he has all those rights, he is immune from everything. You know, what Joe Biden could do, says he is presently president. What whoa he could a Republican in jail? I mean he could And it's funny and the audience wound up clapping about that about throwing every Republican

in jail. I got I got news for you that that would never happen. But that's what that's what she is advocating for. And and this is two weeks after after Whoopee was decrying the idea that that that Trump somebody was going to start putting people in jail, which he's never said, never did. But this is what happens when you get really super desperate. And that's why it's really fun to watch people turn into other people with their hair on

fire that you really never actually saw before. You're like, wow, you know, it's kind of like the uh sometimes on Twitter. Really you mad, bro, It's like dag, It's like you mad them whoope, well, because they're freaking out, Like even when it came to the the news

organization. Well, this is good. This is the Supreme Court agreeing to hear Donald Trump's claim that he's immune to prosecution on federal charges of attempting to overturn the twenty twenty election that puts his trial on hold, serving the former president's strategy of pushing his trials past the presidential election, deciding to take up

the issue of presidential immunity. The Supreme Court has effectively delayed the most far reaching criminal case against Donald Trump. It delay is already something of a Trump victory. Yeah, sure is, And that's why they're all freaking out. It's fun. Today's going to be a great day in Georgia. The entirety of the case against him there is going to go up in absolute flames. Hey, we've got a rock star on the other side of this. Break

four nine, the Patriots. Good everybody, it's common since radio in the morning. And Happy fancy Friday to all of you. And this is going to be epic, my friends. The Evolution Festival twenty twenty four right there in beautiful Forest Park. It was as if it couldn't get any better than last year. It's crazy September twenty eight, twenty nine. And believe me, you might think that seems like it's a long way away. It is not. This is coming. It's going to pop up and the Evolution Festival,

headlined by The Killers. That's just the first band out of the blocks. And again another victory for Steve Shankman and all of the great people putting this festival together. And they dream big and it is a big, big deal now, and congratulations on that. Steve Shankman. Welcome to the show, buddy. How you doing, Good morning, Jamie on this happy Friday. How you doing? Was the first September twenty eighth, and twenty ninth

is only seven months away. Yeah, and just the lineup between the Killers at back and Jane's addiction and then you guys always managed to kind of nail like an old school talent, and so Blondie is going to be there. Man, how about that one of the most charismatic stars out there in icon.

You know the mission behind evolution, You know, I sold Contemporary the Old Contemporary ninety eight, which became Live Nation after that, and when we saw no festival in Saint Louis after Lufest basically folded, I said to Joe Litpag, who had worked for me back in the nineties and was doing festivals all around the country, Let's go together and make this happen. And the mission really is to have an elevated experience to celebrate our community and embrace our

diversity in Saint Louis. So you're right. I thought last year was a killer show, but this is the killer show this year now because the Killers are on it. If you don't know what mister you know, listen to mister Brightside, then you don't go to a Miszoo football game or go to a wedding because mister Brightside it was in the Wall Street Journal has replaced my good friend's journeys. Don't stop believing. It is the top song at weddings

now that my band and all bands play. So having the Killers is great. The whole idea too, behind us is they have a lot of diversity in the artist's seventies, artist's eighties, artists nineties. Yes, we do have Blondie. And when you think about blonding you think about all the hits that she's had. I mean, you know, we can talk about the Killers. We talk about Beck. I mean Beck's been around for a long

time too. I mean he was like the beginning of alternative rock and folk and hip hop and electronic I mean Loser Sea Change Colors, Jane's addiction from La I mean Perry Fell. How do you beat those vocals and pioneers of the business. So one act after another, twenty eight acts, you know, like two days of music and a really inexpensive ticket. When you think about for one hundred and thirty bucks sixty five dollars a day. You can

see these kinds of entertainers at the Evolution Festival in Forest Park. Yeah, Brandon Flowers is like one of my heroes. The guy's got a great voice. He's a great entertainer and that is quite a catch for you guys. And Noile Rogers and Killer Mike. I think Killer Mike was the one who was It wasn't he arrested at the Grammys or something. He got three Grammys in an arrest, but that was so bad. I don't think he did. He didn't do any jail time. It was a battery charge from what

I understand. Yeah, if I walked in on you at the Patriot and pushed you a little bit, I guess that could be battery. Well, but here's a guy killer you know, and keeping the local people involved. I mean his DJ track star lives in Saint Louis. So these guys have been together for a long time. They were part of Run the Jewels, you know, hip hop and rap again, diversity. We have to celebrate all the major music genres and we have to bring in people that are part

of the fabric of Saint Louis and that's everybody. This is a very inclusive festival this year and dynamic entertainers. Well that that that that thing made me mad. I'm a conservative, a libertarian, and that was way way over the top. And nothing happened. It was all trumped up. But to do that to this dude was was really so I'm glad everything's cool with him. And then you have Helly King and Todd Rundren and now here's a guy who I've listened to for a long long time, and I'm so glad you

have him. And I'm not quite sure a lot of people listen to him as much. But but but they but they should and they do given how you have him here. Pete Yorn is outstanding. Yeah, well Pete Yorn was our last entree to the to our list. But el King, you know Rob Schneider's daughter, Rob Schneider, the entertainer, you know, the comedian. Yeah, I mean when you think about X's and O's, I mean, my ten year old twins, they're coming to the show. They

love Axes and oh they love and Todd Runggrend Hello, it's me. I saw the light. We're talking about hit after hit Grammy Star after Grammy Star. I mean we have an we have an artist on the show that's an actress. Uh, she's a country star. I mean, I mean we're talking about Lola Kirk. Lola Kirk a Simon Kirk's daughter. Simon was the drummer and Bad Company. I mean she said she did the movie Gone Girl.

I mean, we got actresses, we got icons, we got we got killer music from the Killers, we got standards from people like Pete Yarn and then a lot of local like I said, acts as well, because we like to expose Sunbolt for example. Yes, now the lead singer from Uncle Tupelo. So Jeff Jared is my partner in contemporary for twenty years. He curates the shows. He knows, he knows the right acts to put together. And we are so excited. And you know, it's not just

entertainment. It's food. Last year was barbecue. This year it's other kinds of foods and barbecue, all kinds of spirits. All We have added a third stage in the center of the festival. We ha at a third entrance so people could get in easier. We listened to a survey of a thousand people that told us here's some things we love, but here's some things you can improve upon. And even after fifty five years, Jamie, you know me, for the last thirty years plus, we've got to improve upon things

to make people happy here. And we bring a lot of people from out of town to visit Saint Louis in Forest Park. We don't open until like one o'clock in the afternoon, so people have plenty of time to go to the zoo, the history museum, they can go down to the garden, but come and see our great town. This is we're celebrating the good things about Saint Louis, well, not to the bad. Let's talk about the good. So that's why Evolution Festival each year evolves into something new. And

I'm glad what you said. It Last year was great. Brandy Carlisle, black Keys, black Crows, ice Cube. I mean nobody sees ice Cube, yet he was at our festival. The same thing with the celebration of Yip Pop having Sugar hild Gang last year. Man Brandy Carlisle was just I'll

never forget that. I've loved it for a long time, but that concert to see her there, I've seen her a couple of times but to see her there, beautiful forest park, gorgeous night and man was that great and this I was really impressed, and a lot of people were, because you know how festivals go, you never know. Sometimes it seems like, you

know, I gotta wait in line for this way. That was one of the most organized, well organized festivals I've ever seen, right down to you know, so many food choices and bathrooms and I mean it was really great, really comfortable. Well thank you for that. We have a great team of three hundred people to put this thing on. And again, this is not our first rodeo. We opened Riverport in nineteen ninety one and uh, well we had a little riot out there, you remember that one. But

we're not having any We're not having any riots at Evolution. But it's you know, it's building a city. There's nothing in the park where where we're at, at Langenberg Field and Cricket Field. We got to fence it, we got to secure it, we got to put electric in, we got to bring lighting in, stage sound, the whole deal. And it takes an army to do it. And you're right, there wasn't any incidents. We didn't have any arrests. We didn't have any liquor problems. Nobody had

to go to the to the hospital. I mean, it wasn't Woodstock. It's an elevated festival. I love heavy metal, but I'm too old to be doing heavy metal shows. I have to do things that I can take my kids to now, and I got some young ones as well as my older ones. But I just think Saint Louis needs to turn out and show the Coachella's and a lot of Puloozas and the Bourbon and beyonds and all the other cities in America that Saint Louis is a music town. We got great

venues, the Factory, the Pageant, Delmar Hall, Riverport. I mean, we are a music town. People have come from here in music, people have come to here in music. We have it all, so we have to celebrate it. And a festival is not just a concert. It's an experience, an immersive experience. It's two days of fun and people together just enjoying themselves. I will tell you that my sons and I at one point we're talking about, well, we need to get to Coachella. We

need Coachella. I never imagined that Coachella would come to us. You know what I mean, Like it would be not necessary to go to Colorado or over the hell, you know, some desert somewhere. It's like it's right here, you know. Great. Well, listen, a lot of festival goers, like the festival in New Orleans this year. They have the Stones, they have Neil Young, they have the Killers. These are five day festivals. These are huge mega festivals. We don't need a mega festival.

We need a nice festival. At Saint Louis's last year twenty five thousand, hopefully this year thirty thousand. You know, that's fifteen thousand a day. I mean it's not even the size of river Port. So it's still going to be an intimate experience. It's not Lollapalooza. If you want to go there three hundred miles away, go to Chicago and enjoy Lolla plusa with three, yeah, a thousand of your faith, of your favorite people. This was an easy place to get around. You didn't wait in long lines.

You're arriving, had lots of bathrooms. The VIPs had those special air conditioned bathrooms. But September twenty eighth and twenty ninth is a month later, we're out of the heat of summer. We're in the fall, and I'm looking forward to this myself. As you can tell, I've been doing this fifty years and I'm still pretty enthusiastic about music. Right the fact that we can

do this in Saint Louis and give this a as THEA. Shar Jones, our mayor said, this is a gift of Saint Louis Greater Saint Louis, wrote a quote about how the inclusiveness of this festival, this is this is not a place where only certain people can go. Everybody can come. And I know you like that even though you're a conservative, you like that. Oh, yeah, of course I do. Yeah, well that's what should

define a conservative. So yeah, absolutely, And I have to tell you and you also and thank you for honoring the most beautiful park in the country and truly gem, which is Forest Park. And you know you didn't take it out the West County. Didn't you go here? Right in? What you go right to the most beautiful place on earth as far as I'm concerned, and certainly in Saint Louis Forest Park. So there you go. And we're sitting in a very tree lined area at Landenberg Field the creek is right

there and you walk over that. You the VIP area by the boat house. Listen, it's convenient. The metro inc comes within five minutes of the entrance. I mean, you know, you don't have to drive to the park and worry about where you're going to put your car. So it's easy, it's accessible, it's open, it's inclusive. I love the lineup. I think this is gonna be some of the best concerts. I mean, look at it this way. You got nine to ten of the major acts.

You're seeing ten concerts for what kind of money. I mean, it's small money compared to what you're getting on the other end. And the sets will be a little longer this year. The major acts to play a few a little bit longer, and I think I think the real party is not going to be in front of the stage. A lot of these bands know each other and they've worked with each other before, and I think it's gonna be a big party for them as well. First year we had to get

acts to come. This year, they're calling us, oh good next year. By next year, who knows who may be on the bill. You know what I'm saying, You just don't know, wow, and it's going to be a great week. And Billy Joel, my old friend, Billy Joel. I did him in Saint Louis and eighty one with Harry chap and he was the opening act. He's playing on Friday night with Sting. Then you go right into Evolution Festival for two days, a concert weekend and what

I would call one of the concert capitals of America. I mean I've been all my life. I've put on concerts from the Keel Opera House, from the stages in Illinois to Mississippi Knights. I think Saint Louis has some of the greatest fans and we certainly have some of the greatest radio. And you guys are great to get behind it. Yeah, I thank you and John Beck and all the people that iHeart for being part of this. Yeah, we love it. Man, you are your amazing Just quick question, Billy

Joel opened for Harry Chapin. That's right at Keil Opera House. He was the opening act and I stood in the back with Harry and Harry said, someday this guy's going to be a big star. Wow. And then you know Harry met his death very young. Yeah, in a car accident. But you know, it's fun to see these acts still going. I mean Chicago Billy Joel, Elton John's three year farewell tour, the Stones with a new album. Don't underestimate age anymore. People in their seventies are like people

in their fifties. I mean they're on the go. I mean they're doing things. They're buying tickets, They're going to sporting events. This is a great town for entertainment in sports, and I'm just glad that. Well. Everybody says, Steve, what you could have retired, You could have moved away. Move Where where am I going to go? Where I'm going to find? What I find and say lose? You talk about the park.

I was chairman of the Zoo for seven years. And when you pull up from Hampton, you see the Shankman Family Plaza with the animal always sculpture. Why would I go so I go anywhere I want to go. Family goes here, the family goes there. Yeah, but why would you want to live anywhere but Saint Louis. We got we just got all the best food we got that. I mean, it's just it's an incredible place to live

and raise your kids. Schools, are great and uh and again, you know, you get on a plane, you go somewhere else for a week or two, and you come back home. You were you're you're, you are the reason why this is such a great talent for music and and indeed entertainment. And I have to tell you, Todd Rudgren, who I'm sure you probably were responsible for bringing him back here in the nineties when he was

at Riverport. I remember that, and for some reason I was tasked I was working a Channel four at the time, and for some reason I was tasked with like going out and and hitting him up for an interview as he left the Ritz. And you don't mess with Todd Runggren, because he's got a he's sharp as attack. And I asked him the dumbest question you could possibly ask a guy, because I didn't know one else to ask him, So I said, so when are you coming back? And he goes,

I don't know, I haven't left yet. Oh that's funny. I mean it was like he was like looking at me like I was crazy. I know, I'm sorry, mister Rungren, but oh god was like in the early nineties, I was all of like twenty seven years old. But anyway, it's so great that he's still kicking it and what a what an amazing and this is here. I'll ask you on a dumb question. Are you on the Walk of Fame yet there in my hometown of U City? Well, I did grow up in U City. I went to U City High

School. I'm on the wall across from Nelly Nelly's Hall of Fame. Yeah, I am mattresses Cardinal Haynes. Well, that's a Joe Edwards call, not not for me. Oh Awards and Walk of Fames. I mean, I think the people that have gotten that honor that you know, the Tina Turners and the Chuck Berrys, they're much more deserving than me. I'm behind the scenes. My job is to bring the talent in, take time and

put the show on. Well, so I'm gonna I'm waging the campaign and so everybody here I know Joe, and by the way, I'm a U City boy too. I've read your U City High on one, so I know you did. But you need to be I know it's not important to you because you have so many things that you're doing. But that's that's why I'll take it over. You go ahead, and relax, and then I'll

make sure it happens because I think it needs to. Well. I appreciate that my Hall of Fame is right here in my office and my house with all the beautiful plaques and pictures and autographs of artists. And there I am with Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach a Bond girl in a picture, and you know it's all captured. And again, listen, it's not about the accolades.

I mean the plaza at the Zoo that we put our name on us to inspire other people to give money to charities and to organizations and institutions like the Zoo. And I was young when I did it, and it's good because you know, the transition of wealth is happening if it hasn't happened already. So now we've got to get the sons and daughters of people that done well to start giving money. Philanthropy is the key to success. And they have a great town forgiving, one of the best in the country. So

you know, the show stands on its own. I will stand in line with people at the front gate when the gates open in September twenty eighth, and I'll talk to people. I will tell them who I am. They don't believe it that I'm going to come out and ask them how they're doing. And when I had Riverport, I used to ride around the golf cart and I'd see people that could use a ride. I'd pick them up at the front gate and they'd be reading the program while they're driving to their seats

in my cart. They go, wait a second, is that your brother? I said, let's beer Zuckerman. Why would you be driving? Because I want to hear what people have to say. We did a survey after last year's festival, one thousand people. We got a ninety four percent approval rating on a first year festival and eighty three percent, so they're coming back. So I need that eighty three percent and another seventeen percent to get to the around thirty thousand over the two days. It's all about the fun,

it's all about the camaraderie. Again, we have enough bad things to talk about in Saint Louis, and we accentuate the negatives sometimes, but we have to now celebrate evolution because it's our time, it's our town, and it's evolution. And again I said this once before when we're doing shows at Bush Stadium. Last year's show sold out. This year, don't be left out. You remember the Superjams back of the seventies, so listen. We're not going to sell out, I hope, because we've got lots of space.

But buy your tickets when the price is low, and that's why we offer lower pricing in the beginning of the sale Evolutionfestival dot com all kinds of tickets with chairs, without chairs, VIPs for people to want a little bit of a more elevated experience. The main thing has come and support Saint Louis. It's not about contemporary and just listen. My partner Joe Lidveg support Saint Louis. Billboard magazine had a headline about the Killers coming and Beck coming to Saint

Louis. Okay, Billboard would have picked up a concert in Saint Louis. They don't pick up a venue in Saint Louis. But when they heard festival in Saint Louis, they wrote about it. Ebony magazine, a month before our festival started last year put us in the top ten hip hop festivals in America. So this is highlighting what we have in Saint Louis. Don't let this opportunity pass us by. If you didn't come last year, it's okay because it's this year. Ya. Tickets support the people and these bands that

are coming here. Without Evolution Festival, Jamie, you know how the business works. You wouldn't see Blondie in September. You wouldn't see the Killers. They weren't coming to Saint Louis. We were on their tours. They're coming to the festival because artists love the festival. Laid back yet high dynamic performances you're gonna see this year. It's gonna be one band after another. It's going to be a killer festivals. We got Killer Mike and we got the

Killers. And like you said, Nile Rodgers seven times on Saturday Night Live, the most out of all or acts on the show. I mean, it's just an array of unbelievable experiences, all right, But that's what a festival is. Okay. It sounds good. Steve Evolution Festival dot com and it's really cool. They have a concier's there chatbot Conciers, so you have any questions, it's right there. And yes, the greatest promoter who ever lived, Ladies and gentlemen, Steve Shankman, you are the best man.

Congratulations on yet another great festival and we'll see you soon. The good count on that be talking to you soon too, ask my friend, Yeah, this is this is thank you. Yeah, last year's was. It's great. And believe me, as festivals go, you know how they sometimes you feel like you can't it's too busy, and it's to this. They organize this thing to the t. It's fantastic. You guys have a great rest of your weekend. Alex, thanks a ton. I'll see you on Monday.